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The school and or NCAA could decide to unilaterally offer draftable players a reasonable loss of value insurance policy should they get hurt in one of the games. That might mitigate this trend.

Love the idea! It's probably about the best you could do, as the school.

NCAA allows Univ of Minnesota to pay X (tens of?) thousands of dollars premium on an insurance package that would pay out to Tyler Johnson in the event that an injury in the bowl game for the 2019 season could be shown to have cost him draft positions, signing bonuses, perhaps even a (longer) career in the league. Make the payout something like a couple million dollars, in the form of an annuity that pays out to him (TJ) for the rest of his life.

Wonder what that premium would have to be, for say a $2million annunity pay out?

Anyway, I'm sold! Like that? Seeing how I have no skin in the game, ha!

Cut out the middleman and offer the policies directly. Commercial businesses are incentivized to cheat clients. A consortium of schools self-insuring would have less incentive to do so in theory. Surely there is expertise available to analyze and create actuarial tables at the schools. Perhaps a thesis project even. It’s not like flying to the moon. Do it cheaply and efficiently with free labor.

Cut out the middleman and offer the policies directly. Commercial businesses are incentivized to cheat clients. A consortium of schools self-insuring would have less incentive to do so in theory. Surely there is expertise available to analyze and create actuarial tables at the schools. Perhaps a thesis project even. It’s not like flying to the moon. Do it cheaply and efficiently with free labor.

NCAA or the schools paying out insurance policy ... paying .... a player.